ongoing NEWS

2009-06-18 Thread Andy Wingo
Hey, Not yet done with my part of the NEWS, though I hope to finish by noon or so tomorrow. But here is some of what I have, for review: ** The stack limit is now initialized from the environment. If getrlimit(2) is available and a stack limit is set, Guile will set its stack limit to 80% of

Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, string_abstraction2, updated. fc50695e8d6a5cc0cebc3a8fcd0833ec1ff316a2

2009-06-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Mike Gran spk...@yahoo.com writes: Setting a port's default encoding to Latin-1 doesn't work out so well in practice. For example, ports are used as the backend of procedures like with-input-from-file and with-output-to-string. Those procedures don't currently take any encoding

Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, master, updated. 782a82eed13abb64393f7acad92758ae191ce509

2009-06-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: + uniform-array-bytevector I would not export it from `(rnrs bytevector)' given that it has nothing to do with RnRS. No, but it does have to with bytevectors... Where would you put it? Dunno, maybe not anywhere public? Also, I would make

Re: Andy Wingo -- THANKS

2009-06-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org writes: I know I'm new here, but I'm sure we can all agree that Andy Wingo has earned a spot in the top section of the THANKS file. And `AUTHORS' as well I guess. :-) Ludo'.

Re: guile and emacs: unexec

2009-06-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ken Raeburn raeb...@raeburn.org writes: I've updated to recent Emacs sources and Guile 1.8.6. I've gotten it to a point where it seems to start up fine in tty mode, reads in (and does color highlighting of) C files and directories, does some other basic stuff. Woowww, impressive!

Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?

2009-06-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: Julian Graham jool...@gmail.com writes:    ** Guile now uses Gnulib as a portability aid ** Guile now uses components from Gnulib for portability to a wider variety of POSIX and non-POSIX systems. I see where you're heading with this, but

Re: release update

2009-06-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: One question is that I've been calling this thing 1.9.1 under the assumption that we made a 1.9.0; but that does not seem to be the case. Should this one be 1.9.0 or 1.9.1? I'd say 1.9.0. guile-config and pkg-config We should deprecate the former, BTW, if

Re: ongoing NEWS

2009-06-18 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: Autocompiled files will be stored in the user's ~/.guile-ccache directory, which will be created if needed. This is analogous to ccache's behavior for C files. As long as nothing is set in stone, perhaps you want to consider following the XDG basedir